Culture Wars: A Dubious Debate
This is a little something I posted on a BBS after getting fed up with about a zillion threads on what causes homosexuality. I really like it so I thought I'd post it here as well. America is spending way too much time on a debate that is simply irrelevant to the actual issue of rights. It's an informal rant but I thought it was a pretty good one anyway :-)
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I say that the debate of whether or not homosexuality is a lifestyle choice or genetic is irrelevant to how citizens are treated under the law. The debate is an unneccessary distraction in regards to civil treatmet and rights. Non-land owners were denied the vote (civil rights) because they were white non-land owners not because of their genetic status.
The debate over choice versus genetics is one firmly rooted in proving correct or incorrect certain religious ideas that are centered around Abrahamic laws and religious offshoots with both sides attempting to prove God's law.
If it is genetic it is supposed that certain religious interpretations must be re-evaluated or disregarded --giving homosexuals the power to enter into Christianity (and other religions) as a full citizen or to disregard it completely on the theological grounds that a perfect Creator created homosexuals.
If it is a choice certain strands of Christianity and other religious groups can claim that it is immoral and against nature.
However, the laws of a secular nation are not in place to legislate morality especially from religious grounds. Rather they are in place to protect, provide and promote the blessings of citizenship and rights among its citizens. Therefore, the debate of causality is irrelevant to the function and garuntees of law. If society wishes to protect itself from things it deems harmful to society that is one thing but to deem something harmful based solely on morality tied to religious sensibilities is offensive to the form and function of government.
Discrimination and denial of rights by the government does not have to be genetic to be real and/or unconstitutional. Such is the case with people with disabilities and those that are discriminated against based on creed.
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I say that the debate of whether or not homosexuality is a lifestyle choice or genetic is irrelevant to how citizens are treated under the law. The debate is an unneccessary distraction in regards to civil treatmet and rights. Non-land owners were denied the vote (civil rights) because they were white non-land owners not because of their genetic status.
The debate over choice versus genetics is one firmly rooted in proving correct or incorrect certain religious ideas that are centered around Abrahamic laws and religious offshoots with both sides attempting to prove God's law.
If it is genetic it is supposed that certain religious interpretations must be re-evaluated or disregarded --giving homosexuals the power to enter into Christianity (and other religions) as a full citizen or to disregard it completely on the theological grounds that a perfect Creator created homosexuals.
If it is a choice certain strands of Christianity and other religious groups can claim that it is immoral and against nature.
However, the laws of a secular nation are not in place to legislate morality especially from religious grounds. Rather they are in place to protect, provide and promote the blessings of citizenship and rights among its citizens. Therefore, the debate of causality is irrelevant to the function and garuntees of law. If society wishes to protect itself from things it deems harmful to society that is one thing but to deem something harmful based solely on morality tied to religious sensibilities is offensive to the form and function of government.
Discrimination and denial of rights by the government does not have to be genetic to be real and/or unconstitutional. Such is the case with people with disabilities and those that are discriminated against based on creed.
posted by anoki at 11:59 PM
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